To all of you urging Theresa May to quit and suggesting we need ANOTHER election I say, get a grip

Theresa May is the right person to continue the vital work to deliver what has been promised

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By Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary

11th June 2017,10:00 pm

Updated: 12th June 2017,7:14 am

THE last Tory defeat of the election was announced on Friday evening at Kensington town hall – and the triumphalism of the Corbynistas could not be contained.

You might have thought they would have something gracious to say to Victoria Borwick, who for years served selflessly as my deputy mayor in London, seven days a week, lending her support to community groups and charities across the capital.

Election night was very disappointing for the Conservatives and it is easy to see the campaign did not go well

I record this partly to show that Jeremy Corbyn’s Momentum crew are not perhaps as nice as all that, but mainly to show that they are also slightly delusional about the election that has just taken place.

To judge by the reaction on the left, it is as if the Labour leader had won a landslide.

Corbyn is being hailed as a messiah, a miracle man – greeted with rapturous ovations wherever he goes (and no jeering from any dissenting Tories that happen to be there; one of the advantages Mr Corbyn has had in his public appearances is that Tories are generally too polite or just good natured to heckle…)

To judge by the media coverage, it is as if the Tories had been routed – reduced to a handful of shire seats, perhaps, with a walloping on the scale of 1906 or 1997.

Labour need to be reminded they did not win the election, they did not even come close

But that is feasible - and before Labour object, someone should remind them that they tried to do exactly the same thing in 2010.

To those that say the PM should step down, or that we need another election or even - God help us - a second referendum, I say come off it. Get a grip, everyone.

This is the third year running that we have forced the people out to the polls.

This is the third year running that they have been accosted at stations and asked for their support, or had campaign literature thrust into their hands.

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My judgement is that they are fed up to the back teeth with all this.

They are fed up with politics, politicians and the uncertainty and dislocation of the electoral process.

They overwhelmingly want us to get on with the job.

Yes, of course it is partly about Brexit and we must get that right.

There can be no backsliding from the objectives the PM set out in the campaign - taking back control of our laws, our borders, our cash; but also ensuring that we have a great new partnership with the EU that allows us to trade more freely and enthusiastically than ever.